RGL

That’s a hair cut, right?

Every day?

AS previously stated, Pontos based this kit on Tamiya’s Prince Of Wales not the KGV. As such the central catapult area is a retrofit and there is no protrusions at the end of the Cats on the side of the ship provided and have to be scratch built. The 42-43 version did have the armoured splinter shields instead of railings and I have yet to add 8 single 20mm guns. Yes, I also have to fix up the paintwork and add some large scuppers. 

Nicely bent into a hook and.......

they are also good for poking fun at the Dutch

I use acupuncture needles, packet of 100 for about $5 

So if I have staff does that make me a cat?

You’re flying along, looking good. It’s funny how the camera picks up things they mk1 eyeball misses. 

I’m watching another build of her on FB, it’s a very busy ship, a lot of detail 

Or insert some LED’s inside......

So true, small scale also hides mistakes but if I were to build her again I’d do individual stanchions. 

Love them a lot. You are soo right about Pontos instructions but I keep going back. 

Nope. Can’t buy any of it yet. He’s still in the design phase. You still have at least 2 builds to finish young man! I only have 1. I am liking your RN builds a lot though. When he makes a full set commercially available I’ll let you all know. 

On the Facebooks I see some people have multiple kits still in boxes, I’ll never do that, as each day brings its own adventure and I’d hate to be caught with a huge stash of kits when the lights go off. 

Now that Popeye is in the Home strait, a quick update on what’s new for the next plastic group build.....

As usual your pace is amazing. Looks great. 

Deck vents, so many deck vents

You’re getting a little bit prolific. I think 5 Star does an upgrade for this. 

Well done, there is something to be said for these small builds. 

Thanks gents but I’m not rushing, it takes weeks to get little bits done you don’t even notice then BANG, it seems to jump ahead. 

The who deck has a few hundred pieces to make/paint/add, then ships boat, a plane, a million individual stanchions to be added. 

The two main superstructures have been glued to the deck. There are 4 secondary gun platforms that required 2 day’s work to add stanchions then rigging the 3 bar railings. 

Throw on some ladders and a few more carley floats and done. 

I used a single section of PE railinging and bent the top rail out, then glued it to the interior was, making a railing, then just glued the denier down with a tiny dab of CA 

Dirks photo hides a lot of sins 

Thanks, given the absolute lack of detail on this kit (it’s really dated), it becomes like being a little bit pregnant, you detail or you don’t. It seems to upset my OCD to not detail but this is really quite a big piece. 

Now, my black and white effort

Congrats mate

Nearly there mate, it’ll look like the real thing in a black and white photos 

But wait! There’s more! 

The upper per bridge area has a lot of detail and it took a while to get my head around what was required. 

I cut cut off all the binoculars and range finder pedestals and replaced them all with North Star  as the Pontos stuff really made no sense and the instructions just gave part numbers. 

The high altitude range finders were all replaced with North Star as well, and I added 6 signal lamps. 

I just have to add the coat the coat of arms then park it until it’s stuck onto the ship and it will get the final rigging